Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected--and best-informed--experts on radical Islamism in the world today, returns to alert readers to the future course of the struggle between Islamist extremism and the West, by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya, whic…
Understanding Pakistan -- Zia's jihad -- Omar's jihad -- Osama's jihad -- Global jihad -- Thinking the unthinkable : implications of a jihadist state in Pakistan -- Helping Pakistan -- Key persons and timeline. "Explores the long and contentious relationship between the United …
Chronicles the Muslim holy war against Christians, from the military invasions of the Dark Ages to today's random acts of terrorism.
Chronicles the Muslim holy war against Christians, from the military invasions of the Dark Ages to today's random acts of terrorism.
Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has dominated discussions of national and international security. Yet conflicting assumptions about the nature of the group and the implications of bin Ladin's death abound. Rather than just providing another biography of al-Qaeda, the author forensically ex…
Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has dominated discussions of national and international security. Yet conflicting assumptions about the nature of the group and the implications of bin Ladin's death abound. Rather than just providing another biography of al-Qaeda, the author forensically ex…
"Christina Hellmich forensically examines the most authoritative sources on which the present understanding of al-Qaeda relies, examining the discrepancies between what is reported and what can realistically be known"--Publisher.
"In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad …
